Health

You might think that being happy is the fairly obvious answer to all of your problems. But it turns out that happiness might in fact be the worst solution ever to one of life's biggest problems: the inevitability of death. According to a recent story by Richard Alleyne in the Telegraph — "Feeling happy? Don't be too smug as chances are you will die young" — people who are excessively joyful are more likely to die young than their more dour peers.

He swept into the dimmed Sony Centre in Toronto, combing the crowd like an evangelical leader, and Science-ish half-expected audience members to fall down at his touch. But this was no high priest ready to encourage middle-aged men and women to start walking after being paralyzed or to see again after going blind.

It is with great pride and more than a little admiration of his sculpted abdomen that we announce Ryan Reynolds – our own Ryan Reynolds! – has been named this year's sexiest man alive by People magazine.

Any blow to your head that bounces your brain around inside your skull can cause swelling or tiny tears in the brain tissue (a.k.a. a concussion). Symptoms don't always appear right away, and when they do surface, they may last anywhere from mere minutes to a lifetime.

We can’t always trust ourselves to workout. On those mornings when you’ve got a workout planned but are feeling sluggish, cranky or maybe even hungover, it helps to have a friend waiting on you to get the ball rolling. Personally, having my friend Stephan waiting for me to go for a run has been the only thing that got me out of bed on more than one occasion.